I think the iTunes widget just isn't very good - it tends to be unresponsive and I think we're all waiting for itunes widget 1.1 given that for some people it's also causing problems by relaunching their iTunes etc

I've given up on it and gone back to using Synergy in the menu bar.

Incidentally, when we get to iTunesWidget 1.1, I'd also like to see it flip through title/artist like iTunes itself does rather than just seeing the song name.

I think the iTunes widget just isn't very good - it tends to be unresponsive and I think we're all waiting for itunes widget 1.1 given that for some people it's also causing problems by relaunching their iTunes etc

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Ditto that. It really cant be that difficult to get the thing working. So I too have given up on it entirely and won't even activate 1.1 unless the verdict from the users is a universal upward thumb.

Incidentally, on the tail-end subject, I've also had trouble printing on my printer .. but that's kinda settled down for now.

I had F8 set to display iTunes, F9 for Play/Pause, F10 to reverse, F11 to forward and F12 to toggle listening on/off for KeyXing. It was beautiful. I resisted installing it because I wanted a whistle clean Tiger install. Now, I am considering installing it again because I miss the feature so much. Not to mention that I had the other F-keys set to other apps/scripts.

Is there an app that works in Tiger for this? I've searched VersionTracker with no luck.

Unfortunately, KeyXing is no longer developed, and like I said, I doubt it works with Tiger.

I think the iTunes widget just isn't very good - it tends to be unresponsive and I think we're all waiting for itunes widget 1.1 given that for some people it's also causing problems by relaunching their iTunes etc

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thank god! i was wondering why my itunes kept on randomly opening itself, but i hadn't done a search yet. i never use this widget anyway so i guess i can bin it for now..

I haven't had any trouble at all with the iTunes widget. On my PowerBook, it is very responsive. Even on the occasions that it has to launch iTunes, it's nearly instantaneous.

It's just a widget; it's not a full fledged application. It's a frontend for iTunes, and requires it to be open. I guess since I usually have iTunes running anyway, I don't see this as being as issue.

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it's not the fact that itunes has to be open that's the problem. i have itunes open most of the time too. the problem is that the widget decides to randomly launch itunes whenever it feels like it (even when you arent looking at the dashboard)

this is v. annoying when your machine is about to go to sleep and suddenly itunes decides to open.

Apple definitely rushed the iTunes widget. It does not have the look or feel of an apple product. I imagined apple making a iTunes widget that could display the album art for the song being played as well as scrolling the artist and album. I would also like to be able to change the rating of the song with the widget. Hopefully they will add these features in the next one.

My iTunes widget is DAMN slow, to the point of being unusable on both my G3 500 (expected) AND G4 1GHz (definitely not expected!).
Come on apple, sort it out, adjusting the volume is like playing online games on dialup!

My iTunes widget is DAMN slow, to the point of being unusable on both my G3 500 (expected) AND G4 1GHz (definitely not expected!).
Come on apple, sort it out, adjusting the volume is like playing online games on dialup!

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Ditto that DAMN slow for a G4 1.33Ghz. I gave up within five minutes of use. Also, the controls seem pretty crude, since the only way to select specific songs is to a) play an entire playlist or b) next/previous track until you locate it (nigh impossible). Looks like synergy still gets my use.

I had F8 set to display iTunes, F9 for Play/Pause, F10 to reverse, F11 to forward and F12 to toggle listening on/off for KeyXing. It was beautiful. I resisted installing it because I wanted a whistle clean Tiger install. Now, I am considering installing it again because I miss the feature so much. Not to mention that I had the other F-keys set to other apps/scripts.

Is there an app that works in Tiger for this? I've searched VersionTracker with no luck.

Unfortunately, KeyXing is no longer developed, and like I said, I doubt it works with Tiger.

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try tunekeys. its pretty much awesome, and freeware. integrates with growl too.

well there's definitely something weird going on. I have a PB G4 1.5 GHz, 512 MB of RAM and I've only had ONE instance of the iTunes widget being unresponsive. Seems pretty much fine to me most of the time.

try tunekeys. its pretty much awesome, and freeware. integrates with growl too.

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Thanks!

I'll try it out.

I wonder if or installations of Tiger are to blame: as in, how we added tunes. I did a clean install, then moved the contents of my backed up Itunes folder to the Tiger one, and launched iTunes. It did update at launch.

I did not want to create all my playlists and re-rank 3000 songs. That's the only shortcut I took.

It seems that the "pipe" connecting the widget to the iTunes program has its valve "shut off" if Dashboard is not in use for a sort period of time. When you invoke Dashboard, and click on any of the widget's controls, your command is recognized, but the pipe must be refilled with "1's and 0's" before your command can reach iTunes. This is either a rushed job by Apple, or an instance of an install that they did not test on. Otherwise, why would some of us be having the oproblem and not others?

I already wrote some feedback to Apple about this. It better be fixed in 10.4.1.

I think the whole iTunes widget is fairly stupid. Even if it hadn't been extremely slow and unreliable. In fact I tried it the day I installed Tiger, and it was the first (of the "default" widgets) I closed for good. I think I'm way better off wit the ordinary (minimized) iTunes window. Why would I invoke Dashboard to skip a song or adjust the volume when I already can do this just as easy from the app itself...???

I think the whole iTunes widget is fairly stupid. Even if it hadn't been extremely slow and unreliable. In fact I tried it the day I installed Tiger, and it was the first (of the "default" widgets) I closed for good. I think I'm way better off wit the ordinary (minimized) iTunes window. Why would I invoke Dashboard to skip a song or adjust the volume when I already can do this just as easy from the app itself...???

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Well, I wish it would work right. it's terrible on my Dual G5- unresponsive and slow. I'm highly disappointed in Apple.

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